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Chazam
reply to post by flipflop
Real adventures and 100% safety rarely go hand in hand. The first europeans to try to settle in the new world risked their lives. The first astronauts risked their lives with thin suits and shuttles with no protection in comparison to todays standards.
Its time we stop using all our money on weapons and war, and go break new ground again, like we used to do.
Skywatcher2011
Mamatus
They will die.
Although I truly hope it is not before sending back images of Arkens critters and artifacts.
They will die a worse radiation death than we will from Fukushima leak.
kuhl
reply to post by flipflop
I think they will die and it will be televised on some macabre reality show with a 20 minute delay from Mars I believe.
The sponsors will be getting in line for this unfortunately that's the way of the world.
yourmaker
In my opinion they will get severe illnesses of all different kinds of variety. But this will serve a scientific purpose.
They will be studied like human lab rats to ensure the next colonizers avoid the sicknesses.
The thing that I can't shake feeling is someone going psychotic once they get the life support up and running on Mars, then trying to disable it to kill everyone.
Junkheap
If the first four stay alive, eventually others will follow.
I predict that eventually, someone will get the worst case of cabin fever ever and attempt to leave the base without the aid of a spacesuit.
Anyway, I hope the outcome is better than with what happened to Bowie Base on Doctor Who.
I try to keep my hopes up and hope these are our first successful baby steps.edit on 8-1-2014 by Junkheap because: (no reason given)
ketsuko
Four people is a very small margin for error. Just losing one of them ups the burden on the others and increases the chances of total failure exponentially. I think they have very long odds on enduring success unfortunately.
flipflop
. and what about sanity, will the human mind cope, isn't insanity high on the list of afflictions that will affect those first settlers.... how long will their life expectancy be? I imagine I'd like to go, but not if it affects my sanity... how about you?
Chai_An
reply to post by crazyewok
Really, how did you get that figure? If the radiation weren't so bad nations around the planet would have ships on their way to both the Moon and Mars.
flipflop
Chazam
reply to post by flipflop
Real adventures and 100% safety rarely go hand in hand. The first europeans to try to settle in the new world risked their lives. The first astronauts risked their lives with thin suits and shuttles with no protection in comparison to todays standards.
Its time we stop using all our money on weapons and war, and go break new ground again, like we used to do.
I absolutely support and agree with your opinion in the second paragraph, relating to stopping the use of money on weapons and war.... the only arms any of us need are the ones we hug with...
schuyler
ketsuko
Four people is a very small margin for error. Just losing one of them ups the burden on the others and increases the chances of total failure exponentially. I think they have very long odds on enduring success unfortunately.
Losing one means more food for the rest! Depending on their tasks, there may be no increased burden at all, assuming they are not tasked with a set number of man hours to accomplish whatever it is they are supposed to do.
But the issue is, what constitutes success? The intent is likely not to "colonize the planet" with four people. The intent is not to "procure resources" either. The intent most likely is to stay alive until they reach a natural death and possibly until additional people arrive. For a pioneering spirit this is the adventure of a lifetime, hardly a burden.
whatnext21
From what I have read it sounds like 2 males and 2 females? Would they actually bring a child or more into the martian world and what chance of survival would any human baby have on Mars?
interupt42
flipflop
Chazam
reply to post by flipflop
Real adventures and 100% safety rarely go hand in hand. The first europeans to try to settle in the new world risked their lives. The first astronauts risked their lives with thin suits and shuttles with no protection in comparison to todays standards.
Its time we stop using all our money on weapons and war, and go break new ground again, like we used to do.
I absolutely support and agree with your opinion in the second paragraph, relating to stopping the use of money on weapons and war.... the only arms any of us need are the ones we hug with...
Not sure about the hugs thing, but humanity would be better off in redirecting some of the budget used for destruction to researching methods to provide global peace and providing the basic necessities to man kind.
One thing that is pretty amazing about this expedition is , that as far as I know their is no martian currency yet and really no gov't entity to enforce rules. These people will be living in a form of anarchy.